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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Oscar Wilde
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I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Thomas Jefferson
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? -Mahatma Gandhi
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All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Lois McMaster Bujold
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The absence of war is not peace. -Harry S Truman
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Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?

Pablo Neruda
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein
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To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. -Albert Einstein
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein
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The opposite of war isn't peace; it's creation.

Jonathon Larson
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I-I am going to be a storm-a flame-I need to fight whole armies alone;I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I feel too strong to war with mortals-BRING ME GIANTS! -Cyrano De Bergerac
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Another such victory, and we are undone.

Pyrrhus
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War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

George Clemenceau
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...in God's name I command you to let me know as soon as you are aware of the arrival of Fastolf; because if he should pass without my knowledge, I promise you that I will have [your] head removed. -Joan of Arc
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Using the Oval office to cheat on your wife makes you a bad husband and an irresponsible leader. Using the Oval office to lead your troops into a war born of blatant deception makes you a murderer and a war criminal.

Jules Carlysle
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Barbara Ehrenreich
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Only when the war propaganda of the victors is entered into the history books of the vanquished, (and this is also believed by succeeding generations), only then will our reeducation have succeeded. -Walter Lippmann
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I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

Shel Silverstein
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You, men of England, who have no right to this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and notifies you through me, Joan the Maiden, to leave your fortresses and go back to your own country; or I will produce a clash of arms to be eternally remembered. And this is the third and last time I have written to you; I shall not write anything further.

Joan of Arc
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War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men. -George Clemenceau
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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley
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War is the science of destruction. -John Abbott
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Why don't presidents fight the war?/ Why do they always send the poor? ... B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Bombs).

Daron Malakian
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The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

John Arbuthnot Fisher
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Every war is a national misfortune. -Helmeth Von Moltke
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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau
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If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.

Otto von Bismarck
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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. -Will Rogers
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